{"product_id":"lamplighter-american-women-writers-9780813513331","title":"Lamplighter American Women Writers","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Lamplighter was the first novel by twenty-seven-year-old Maria Susanna Cummins. It propelled her into a prominence that continued until her early death at the age of thirty-nine. A novel of female development, The Lamplighter is a woman's version of the quest story. Its heroine, Gerty, comes on the scene as a child abandoned in the slums of Boston. Rescued by the kindly lamplighter Trueman Flint, she learns to meet life with courage and honesty. The novel touched the hearts, validated the ideals, and assuaged the anxieties of a huge readership, and it remained continuously in print until the 1920s.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Selected Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e A Note on the Text\u003cbr\u003e The Lamplighter\u003cbr\u003e Appendix: The Epigraphs\u003cbr\u003e Explanatory Notes","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405770793303,"sku":"9780813513331","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780813513331.jpg?v=1730493554","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/lamplighter-american-women-writers-9780813513331","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}